‘I personally like domineering men. It’s probably because I’m so dominating, I need a dominating guy.’

Tulisa said she was one of the earliest to sniff out the novel.

‘I was probably one of the first people to get on the 50 Shades Of Grey hype. I started reading it and I became obsessed and I think I told everyone and anyone about it and now it’s spread like wildfire,’ she told Liverpool’s Radio City Live.

The X Factor judge has positioned herself as a sex symbol since surviving the storm over the home-made tape earlier this year.

She apologised to fans after admitting it was her in a six-minute film touted online by her ex-Justin Edwards.

The star is currently enjoying a rare single spell after splitting from 22-year-old Skins star Jack O’Connell.

Their romance came after her break-up with N-Dubz bandmate Fazer, 25, at the end of last year.